State Approves Funds for Move Into Library
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Shaker past The legend present at Benton of Gordie Howe -Page 8 -Page 15 (Jtanetttat Sa% (Eamjroa Serving Storrs Since 1896 /OP VOL. LXXXI NO. Sf STORRS, CONNECTICUT (203) 429-9384 THURSDA Y. MARCH 30. 1978 State approves funds for move into library By JOHN BURNS to pass the books along a line from effort to reduce costs. But. because of The State Public Works Depart- one building to the other — a shelving problems in the new build- ment has guaranteed UConn the proposal frowned upon by UConn ing, he said this process would net funds necessary tor tne transfer of President Glenn W. Ferguson as be possible until late April when books from the present Wilbur L. impractical. studnets are busy preparing for Cross University Library to the new exams. This situation will leave the There are more than a million books University of Connecticut Library, job entirelyto the library staff. University Librarian Norman Stevens in the present library and in storage. said Wednesday. The state already has backed During the major move in July, the Stevens said that a bond issue of at UConn's request for 52 new staff present library will be open on a least $ 100,000 will be furnished as positions needed to properly man the limited basis. The Reserve Room payment to commercial movers who, expansive $19-million new library will serve as a temporary "mini" working in conjunction with Librarian located behind Hawley Armory. library and will contain a limited amount of reference material. Dennis Thornton, will begin moving Library officials met Wednesday books early in July. and discussed moving procedure, After the move is completed, both And they're There had been a question of scheduling, and estimations of costs. buildings will be closed for about two whether the state would provide Stevens had hoped to recruit weeks, during which time materials funds for the move and John McDon- student volunteers to assist in the will be organized in the new building, off (slowly) ald, director of University liraries, initial movement of materials stored said Ruth Raines, library adminstra- had proposed a student book brigade in the Faculty Alumni Center, tive assistant. By LYN M. MUNLEY This year's student elections got off to a quiet start Wednesday night with a spattering of student observers and many sudent can- didates attending a forum in North Campus' MCConaghy Dining Hall. Trustee candidates; Federation of Student and Services Organiza- tions candidates and UConn Co-op Board of Directors candidaties presented their reasons for run- ning in brief speeches, followed by question-and-answer session. Candidates for chairman of FSSO, Kim Sadler and Bruc Neslaw, discussed preorities and the encouragement of participa- tion by the students. "Participation comes through knowledge about the organization (FSSO), through programs like the fsso forum and freshman orienta- An elderly couple await their fate luesday in Abasiya, Uni,ed Pre8S ,n,ernational See "Students" page 4 i Lebanon with what they could save from their home Liberation Organization and Israel have agreed to a I destroyed in fighting in southern Lebanon. The Palestine United Nations requested cease-fire in the dispute. Student vote quota upheld as bill goes down By MATT MANZELLA R-New Haven to reconsider the bill uates to vote when at past elections gotten out of committee successfully The General Assembly's Education passed by a 12-10 margin. But after a voter turnouts have averaged a mere it would have died in the legislature. Committee Wednesday killed for a good deal of discussion, the bill was 10 percent resulting from a student Goodwin said. second time this month a bill that finally defeated again by a 11-12 trend of non-participation. would reduce the amount of votes margin, according to Steven Donen, Donen. however, strongly disa- State Rep. Dorothy Goodwin, greed with Goodwin's reasoning. needed in a referendum to give state UCpnn student government chair- D-Mansfield. voted against the bill. college student governments full man, who was present at the commit- Last year's session, the state control over their student fee funds. tee hearing. Goodwin said the main problem legislature passed a public act giving The bill, previously defeated March The student government, the with the bill was that many people student governments in the institu- 14, would have reduced the percent- Federation of Students and Service from the state community colleges, tions of higher education throughout age of voter turnout from 40 per cent Organizations (FSSO) wanted the including students, actually were not the state the right to control their to 25 per cent. It was raised again by turnout percentage reduced because in favor of having students control funds if they could muster a majority the committee after a motion made it claimed it was impossible toe get 40 student fee money. of support from a 40 per cent voter by Stae Rep. Rosaland Berman, per cent of the UConn undergrad- Because of this , even if it had turnout at a referendum on the issue. (Eanwrttrut Saihj (Eampu* Serving Storrs Since 1896 "We're off MARK A CXJPUIS/Editof-ln-Chiel CRAIG K SPERY/BusmMs Manager JOHN HILL Hi/Managing Editor to plead the budget...' VIVIAN B MARTIN/ Associate Editor But. Budget Dorothy meets new 3y MARK A. DUPUIS friends on the way to Hartford. (The Put up or shut up Yellow Brick Road in this version is Interstate 86, which probably has A friend remarked the other day more potholes, crossovers and schools. that "The Wizard of Oz," that bumps than any fantasy land route). There*:* a bill in the state delightful fantasy story of Dorothy, There is the Tin Man, who repre- legislature now that would put The problem for UConn is that her dog, Toto, and their barnyard sents the UConn administration, UConn students in a put-up or students here don't vote in elections friends turned fantasy characters, which always puts in its punches but shut-up situation when it comes to for the most part. All the students at was not at all a child's fantasy, but usually seems to have lost heart. campus elections. It's about time. the state colleges don't vote, but enough do to take any election from rather an analogy of the second THE BILL. APPROVED Tuesday World War. by the General Assembly's Educa- a UConn student. tion committee would allow students SO. IF UCONN students don't THE ANALOGY came to my friend from state technical schools, four- change their ways, they might end year colleges, the community col- from John Preston, an eighth- up never having a direct voice on the semester history major, and goes (in EDITOR S NOTE leges and UConn to elect the two BHE. student members to the Board of simplied version) that the Cowardly Higher Education. Connecticut's top It's ironic that a move by the Lion was really meant to portray agency for the administration of legislature to make the elections Great Britain, with its lenient poli- public higher education. One of more democratic also may work to cies against appeasement and a lack those students represents the two- force UConn students to learn a little of courage to stand up to Germany; There is the Scarecrow, UConn's year schools, the other the four-year* more about democracy and vote. student lobbying effort which always the Scarecrow is the Soviet Union, seems to lack the brains to either go predominantly an agricultural state, to Hartford or do anything once prone to fire and burning in its there. And, finally, there is the DAVID CAUBEV invasions and in search of techno- Cowardly Lion, the Board of Higher logy (the Scarecrow's desire for a Education, which presents a budget brain); and the final character, the but fails to stand behind it. Tin Man, is France, lacking oil, with stagnant industry. The Tin Man's Then, there is the great and search for a heart is reminiscent of all-powerful Oz, the wizard. In France's strong line in demanding UConn's story, he is the state reparations payments from Ger- legislature. (It too has a lot of many following World War I. smoke-filled rooms, just as the wizard's chambers did). Our Oz is Preston's analogy stems from the only one that can bring poor some deep thought. It begins with Budget Dorothy back to Storrs and the trip Dorothy makes when she save her from the Wicked Witch of first runs away from home and sees the West. the trailer marked with notations of the crowned heads of Europe and the traveling showman who later And. as for Toto, well he's still jsut reads a history-filled crystal ball — a dog. Every adaptation, be it in "good historical connotation," Pres- politics or for televison, must keep ton calls it. something from the original. After considering Preston's ana- SO, THOSE ARE the characters. *He said he'll help if they won't retaliate* logy, I came up with one of my own The story is just about the same based not on historical connotation after the budget's landed in Hart- at all, but just on a lot of local ford. Dorothy fights her way past the practices. My analogy concerns wicked witch's castle — committee Dorothy, and the UConn rooms and hearings — and ends up Don't get burned again budget, and its trip to Oz, Hartford. at the gate of Oz, a final legislative vote. The legislatures Appropriations the staff to man it. EVERYONE KNOWS the story of Committee was right Tuesday in That fight should be fought in killing a bill which would have "The Wizard of Oz" so rather than cooperation with local officials and repeat it, I'll just tell you who is who Well, just as happened to the real allowed the sale of the University's the Eagleville Fire Department, and Seagrave hook-and-ladder truck to and what's what in the UConn Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," our not in opposition.